What if Iraq won the Iran-Iraq war?

The Iran-Iraq war was never intended to be won by any side save for possibly Saddam Hussein and his inner circle. For The Iranian Govt, the war was a God send on multiple fronts. read more

In many ways Iran did win the war, if we look at it from a Iranian perspective. For Iran to win the war, Iran did not need to occupy Iraq. read more

Aside from that, the war was inconsequential: having won Iranian recognition of exclusive Iraqi sovereignty over the Shatt-el-Arab River (into which the Tigris and Euphrates combine, forming Iraq’s best outlet to the sea), in 1988 Saddam Hussein surrendered that gain when in need of Iran’s neutrality in anticipation of the 1991 Gulf War. Three things distinguish the Iran-Iraq War. read more